Twitter announced Thursday that it’s looking into a recent bug that appeared to be storing passwords for more than 300 million users. The company said it believes the issue was addressed before users’ passwords could be made public or compromised. In a tweet, it said, “We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone.”Users are encouraged, however, to change their password for accounts just as a precaution. Read the full message below.“We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone. As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password.”

Twitter announced Thursday that it’s looking into a recent bug that appeared to be storing passwords for more than 300 million users.

The company said it believes the issue was addressed before users’ passwords could be made public or compromised. In a tweet, it said, “We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone.”

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Users are encouraged, however, to change their password for accounts just as a precaution.

“We recently found a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log. We fixed the bug and have no indication of a breach or misuse by anyone. As a precaution, consider changing your password on all services where you’ve used this password.”